Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d))
provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless,
prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the President
publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to the Congress a
notice stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the
anniversary date. In accordance with this provision, I have sent the
enclosed notice, stating that the Western Balkans emergency is to
continue in effect beyond June 26, 2004, to the Federal Register for
publication. The most recent notice continuing this emergency was
published in the Federal Register on June 24, 2003, 68 Fed. Reg.
37389.

The crisis constituted by the actions of persons engaged in, or
assisting, sponsoring, or supporting, (i) extremist violence in the
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and elsewhere in the Western
Balkans region, or (ii) acts obstructing implementation of the Dayton
Accords in Bosnia or United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 of
June 10, 1999, in Kosovo, that led to the declaration of a national
emergency on June 26, 2001, has not been resolved. Subsequent to the
declaration of the national emergency, acts obstructing implementation
of the Ohrid Framework Agreement of 2001 in the former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia, have also become a concern. All of these
actions are hostile to U.S. interests and pose a continuing unusual and
extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the
United States. For these reasons, I have determined that it is
necessary to continue the national emergency declared with respect to
the Western Balkans and maintain in force the comprehensive sanctions
to respond to this threat.